Do you believe in Noah's ark?

Question

Do you really believe one man gathered hundredths of thousandths of animal pairs, built a gigantic boat and survived at sea for over a year while feeding himself, his family and all those animals?

By believe i mean. do you honestly think it happened? do you think it was a miracle, a made up story, or an exaggeration?

Well im glad most people who answered have a sensible mind to know how impossible the story is though the eyes of the bible, i too believe that n=Noah lived and made his lil boat but it was no miracle, not by a long shot

Answer 1

No. The story would imply WAY too many ridiculous notions. The story of Paul Bunyan is more believable. Seriously.

Might have there been a flood LOCAL to the area, where somebody built a boat an managed to survive? Sure, I'll buy that. Lots of mythologies, particularly ones from cultures near areas prone to flash floods, had flood stories. Does the story of Noah's Ark have validity as an inspirational story of faith and what not? If people want to believe that, fine.

But a GLOBAL flood, where EVERY living species was aboard including the only 6 human survivors? And somehow ALL the species were not only gathered with all of their food, and properly fed, but dropped off in the right locations? Please.

Answer 2

What he built was an "ark," with a covering that had to stay on it for several months. The story indicates that it was a boat, and that the mountains all went under water. That part sounds like either a "loss in translation," or perhaps a deliberate deception of what the ark was/is from the author. We all know that there is no boat that could be big enough to actually house all those animals. We also know that if he really did that, as described and only a few thousand years ago that we wouldn't have different types of animals all over the world. We would only have the same ones everywhere. Just think about animals only found in Australia, for example.

The story shouldn't be taken literally as history, because it wasn't. There have been hundreds of floods since the beginning of life on earth that wiped out just about everything. There will be plenty more. In the story of Noah, we are given some things to consider; longevity and the key to surviving the next major catastrophe......the "ark."

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Chris J
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Answer 3

When one considers that the Ark was said to larger than any wooden ship built (and the largest of those weren't really seaworthy) it seems very unlikely such a thing was ever actually built.

What seems to have happened was that a natural dam burst and someone that had his land flooded got in a little boat with his family and some livestock and managed to survive then over time the story mutated to the entire world being flooded and pairs of all animals (or even more) being on board the boat.

It was a regional flood but a big enough region to look like the entire world to those primitives living there who either died or ended up on little boats which eventually drifted to land.

Answer 4

This story was actually a Sumerian story and the roots of it are true. The Jews wrote down the story. It was a regional event, there is only one word for land, globe and region in Hebrew. The story was never meant to be taken literally. Jews have never thought of it as literal. This was a Christian thing. The Christians have changed many things to adapt the old with the new books.

Answer 5

Why Was An
Ancient World
Destroyed?

Why Did That Ancient World Perish?
THE global Deluge was not a natural disaster. It was a judgment from God. Warning was given, but it was largely ignored. Why? Jesus explained: "In those days before the flood, [people were] eating and drinking, men marrying and women being given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark; and they took no note until the flood came and swept them all away."—Matthew 24:38, 39.

Sounds like todays world. But who do you believe?
Please enjoy the rest of the article right here! http://www.watchtower.org/library/w/2002/3/1/article_02.htm

Answer 6

Yes. Look at the other side, you mention hundreds of thousands of pairs. Think about it, the other side claims all evolved from slime in a pool of water somewhere, OK, then why did we not all evolve in to a least "like" creatures, why did some fly, some walk, some crawl, some live above ground, some swim in the water, why if we all came from a pool of slime are there hundreds, actually millions of DIFFERENT species? the ark makes much more seance.

Answer 7

I know it is the truth, but then again I have been blessed with a supernatural life that allows me to realize everything and anything is possible. I am 100% sure a creator can create.
If God made the universe out of thin air, what makes people think He cannot make what the hell He wants when He wants?
Are our minds so terribly decayed?

Answer 8

I don't know, I don't think its really important though. But since most cultures tend to have a flood myth, from the Greeks to the Mesopotamians to the Brazilians to the Hawaiians, I am inclined to accept that there was some kind of massive flood that humanity endured, but the secondary details differ.

Answer 9

I recognize the logical impossibility of the literal story as it exists in Genesis, but I also see the reasonable possibility for some basis in ancient history. Exactly how much truth there is to it I do not know, but I don't completely dismiss it as unfounded myth.

Answer 10

yes. scientifically

In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.

Genesis 7:11
King James Version

"the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up,"

below the earth there a layer called "aquafier" were broken up
therefore we have fault lines and earthquakes.